Word: fund
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This fellowship is supported by a fund of $50,000 given to the University in 1905 by Elizabeth Rogers Cabot, Henry Bromfield Cabot, Ruth Cabot Paine, Elise Cabot Forbes, Walter Mason Cabot, and Mabel Cabot Sedgwick. It was the desire of the givers to provide "an additional remuneration to some distinguished man in recognition of his eminence...
...announced that the Engineering Society will establish a fund to aid worthy students in engineering at Harvard University who take the prescribed summer work, it being the purpose to help such men as would otherwise have to spend the summer in earning money to keep them in College for the next year...
President Eliot was appointed Godkin Lecturer for 1907-08 at the last meeting of the Corporation. This lectureship was established in 1904 in memory of Edward Lawrence Godkin h. '71 by the subscriptions of his friends who raised a fund, the income of which is to be devoted to lectures on free government and the duties of citizens. President Eliot will speak in May on some phases of municipal government...
...consider these proportions in order. The statistics show that only the hockey and tennis teams came through with credit balances. All other minor teams had deficits of varying size that had to be met from the general fund. In other words any advantages that the rule may have possessed have ceased to operate, but its evil effects are as strong as ever. The basketball team has to cater to the public by arranging games in Mechanics Hall, and all the teams have to send their candidates on unfruitful tours through the University in search of support. It is high time...
...question next arises how any teams are to be supported from the general fund if subscriptions are abolished. As a matter of fact the total amount collected in subscriptions last year was $9,115.94. If this is subtracted from last year's surplus it leaves but $2,524.53, an amount hardly sufficient to pay the amount due on the Stadium, and at the same time to carry out the various necessary improvements, such as reclaiming the rest of Soldiers Field. It must be remembered, however, that last year the surplus was unusually small and that in average years a reserve...